“EXECUTIVE MANSION, } WASHINGTON, D. C., April 17, 1872 } MY DEAR CLEWS: I have received your several interesting letters in regard to the great meeting in New York, and have shown them to the President, who read them with deep interest. I have not written any suggestions, because I know you, being on the ground, could judge so much better of the situation, and the temper of the New York people. You have done a great work, and this evening’s success will, I have no doubt, be the reward of your efforts. We shall look anxiously for the reports. What you say is curious about the use of Dix’s name and others. Our people are at work in Congress getting up telegrams signed by the Republican members of all the State delegations endorsing the administration of General Grant. I wish we had thought of these sooner, but still we can get them all in time, I hope. I have just come from the House, where I was looking after this matter. Wishing you every success, I remain yours very sincerely, HORACE PORTER, (Sec’y to President Grant.) After the meeting the President’s Secretary writes as follows: EXECUTIVE MANSION, } WASHINGTON, D. C., } April 19, 1872. } MY DEAR CLEWS: I have only a moment before the mail closes to say how earnestly all congratulate you upon the great success of the meeting. It was glorious and genuine. We read the proceedings in full in the _Times_ last night. It has created a marked effect in Congress and elsewhere. Nearly every Republican in the House would have signed the congratulatory telegrams, but the movement was started so late in the day that the paper was not presented to any one. Yours very truly, HORACE PORTER. The following, from the Hon. Roscoe Conkling, is a very flattering reminiscence, which I highly appreciate: UNITED STATES SENATE CHAMBER, } WASHINGTON, April 19, 1872. } MY DEAR SIR: As a New Yorker and a Republican, I want to thank you for the great service you have rendered our country and our cause in conceiving and carrying forward the great meeting of night before last. The effect of it will be wholesome and widefelt; it was most timely, and its whole management was a success. Our friends all, I think, know and appreciate the large debt due you in the premises. Noting your suggestions as to the future, I lay them to heart.